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F. PendulincE, Fries, Corp. 190. {Limosce and Ustulatce, Tuckerman, Enum. 

 Metli. 12.) Differs from the last group in habit and in the sheathless bracts 

 and whitish, more or less granulated, nearly pointless perigynium. 



100. Carex podocarpa, R. Brown, App. Frauk. Nar. ed. ii. 36. 



C. 7nacrochceta, C. A. Meyer, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. i. 224, 



t. 13. 

 C. spectabilis, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxix. 248, f. 76. 

 Culm one to two feet high, rather weak, roughish : leaves mostly 

 shorter than the culm, the lower ones an inch or two long or reduced 

 to mere sheaths at the base of the culm: spikes three to five, the 

 staminate one or two, the others sometimes staminate at the top, an 

 inch and a half or less long, and a fourth or a third inch thick, the 

 lower one or two nutant on long peduncles, the upper ones more or 

 less erect: scales black, usually produced into a long whitish thread- 

 like awn (which is often a half-inch long!) : perigynium elliptic- 

 lanceolate (two to two and a half lines long and half a line or more 

 broad), scarcely beaked, entire at the orifice, nerved, whitish and 

 sprinkled with purple dots: stigmas often three. A very distinct 

 species. G. podocarpa, Bot. Calif., is G. invisa, Bailey. Transition 

 to the Cryptocarpas. — Mountains of British America to Alaska. 

 Adjacent Asia. 



101. Carex Magellanica, Lamarck, Diet, de Bot. iii. 385. 

 G. irrigua, Smith in Hoppe, Caric. 92. 



G. limosa, var. irrigua, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 162. 



G. limosa, var. irrigata, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 243, t. 15. 



G. paupercula, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 172. 



G. lenticularis, Dewey, Sill. Journ. vii. 273. 



G. cernua, Phil. Linnsea, xxix. 83. 

 In peat bogs, Newfoundland, La Pylaie, to Pennsylvania, Porter, 

 to Michigan and Minnesota; Uinta Mts., N. Utah, Watso7i; Arctic 

 America according to Boott. S. America. Europe. 



102. Carex rariflora, Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 2516. 



G. limosa, var. rariflora, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. xxiv. 162. 

 Greenland, Warming &. Holm, Krumlein, etc. ; Labrador, Allen, Sto- 

 rer ; Mt. Katahdin, Me., Goodale ; St. Louis Co., Minnesota, Sandberg. 

 Europe. 



103. Carex limosa, Linn. Sp. PI. 977. 



G. laxa, Dewey, Sill. Journ. xxvi. 37-6. 

 G. limosa, var. Painei, Dewey, Sill. Journ. 2d ser. xxix. 71. 

 Peat bogs from Arctic America to New Jersey and Ohio; Rocky 



